Monk held over spiritual leader’s death

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Akong Rinpoche, who founded the renowned Samye Ling monastery in ScotlandUniversal News And Sport (Europe)

Mike Wade

Last updated at 1:25AM, October 10 2013

An embittered monk who believed that he was owed money by a Buddhist monastery in Scotland is understood to have been arrested for the murder of the institution’s Tibetan founder.

The monk and two accomplices are thought to have gained access to a house in Chengdu, China, and stabbed three men to death, including Akong Rinpoche, the revered spiritual leader who established the Samye Ling monastery in Dumfries and Galloway.

Since its foundation in 1967, Samye Ling has attracted support from Richard Gere, Leonard Cohen and Billy Connolly and has twice been visited by the Dalai Lama.